The Historical Novel Society's brand new site

Under the guidance of founder/publisher Richard Lee, a small group of us have been working out the organization with our web designer, moving much of the existing content over, and inputting and categorizing a large number of reviews from the print Historical Novels Review magazine.

At present, over 2400 reviews are online. You can search or browse them by various criteria - author, title, subgenre, historical period, century, publisher, reviewer name, and more. The newest material went online first, and we plan include the rest as well - since 1997, the HNS has published over 12,000 reviews of historical novels and selected historical nonfiction. It's a big project!

You know, this is wild because I am going to be in London during the Conference! But I think the reason for me being there will keep me from attending. :(

I'd been keeping this conference in mind, sort of in the corner of my eye, since first learning about it, with the idea that I just might be there. And now it looks like the obligations will eat all my time that isn't eaten by jet-lag!

I'll pass your comments on to the rest of the people who worked on the website - thanks!

C, if you wanted you could attend just part of the conference, depending on what your schedule turned out to be. Hope something might work out.

Annis, glad to hear you like the forthcoming books page! It almost didn't make it (it's a large time commitment) but I ended up re-creating it on the new site just yesterday. Managed to get some new material in there today, too.